Creative Counseling Techniques: An Illustrated Guide

by Edward E. Jacobs

Creative techniques can be used to make counseling more active, to dramatize points and heighten awareness, and to enhance learning because people are visual learners.

Genres: Counselling

158 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

Reviews

[Kalem Wright · Rating 3 out of 5]

Argues for a more central role in the process for the therapist and advocates for non-talking interventions including sculpting, utilizing distance and written assignments. Featuring a significant amount of repetition in describing interventions for individuals, groups, families, and couples and with a strong bias towards transactional analysis, this book is entirely intervention and strategy-focused and as such is better suited for therapists with grounding in a variety of modalities rather than beginners.

[Carly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a super quick read, that is full of different techniques that can be applied to individual, group or family/marriage counesling. Overall, it has a great use of metaphors and analogies to help clients discover things about themselves, or make abstract concepts more concrete.

It's a good read, well worth it for soon to be counselors like myself.

I found it interesting that some of the activities reminded me a lot of teaching...?